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Tawanda Valentine Chambwe ([email protected]) is a Research Associate of the International Studies Group at the University of the Free State in South Africa where he obtained his PhD in 2020. He also teaches History in the Department of History, Heritage and International Studies at the Midlands State University in Zimbabwe. His work centers on the colonial and post-colonial histories of African entrepreneurship, informality, and human economies.

Clement Masakure ([email protected]) is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of the Free State, South Africa.

Eric Kushinga Makombe ([email protected]) is a Research Fellow in the History Department at the University of the Free State and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History, Heritage and Knowledge Systems at the University of Zimbabwe. His broad research interests are in urban history, agrarian and development studies, human economy and sustainability, rural-urban linkages and rural development, and more recently climate change. Some of his articles have appeared in Global Environment and the Journal of Developing Societies.

Philipp Hofmann ([email protected]), PhD Candidate in African History, Centro de História da Universidade de Lisboa.

Marisa Candotti obtained her PhD in African History at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. The title of her PhD thesis is “Cotton Growing and Textile Production in Northern Nigeria: from Caliphate to Protectorate, c. 1804–1914”. Recently she has also conducted research at SOAS as Research Associate of the Department of History. Her main research interests concern the colonial and pre-colonial West African economic history in a global perspective.